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Most of this weekend was spent in Raleigh. I left Reidsville at about 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon and reached my friend Chad‘s place a little after 6. For the past five weeks I’ve been studying my brains out for the Praxis exam: that’s the big series of tests given to prospective teachers. It was actually two exams that I took on Saturday: one that morning for content knowledge, and the second later that afternoon on teaching methods. And, I think that I did pretty well on them! The first was over a hundred multiple-choice questions that you had to use a number-2 pencil to fill in those little bubbles for your answers, but the second was stuff you had to think about and write out. Basically that exam provided two knowledge areas that you had to make lesson plans out of. Even though that was the harder of ...

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Just one more post before I really absolutely do take a self-imposed sabbatical from blogging for the next few days: it was first mentioned last week that the first commercial from my school board campaign – the “zany” Star Wars-inspired ad – will be screened this weekend at the first-ever Pixelodeon Independent Video Festival at the American Film Institute… in Hollywood! So if you’re in Los Angeles for the next few days, I guess you can stop by and watch the Death Star blow up a schoolhouse.

Hey, it helped get me almost forty-seven hundred votes, didn’t it?? šŸ™‚...

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It’s late. I’ve been working on this video since yesterday afternoon. Had some weird encoding problems. But the first “political advertisement” I’ve made in support of Ron Paul for President is all finished now, and uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure. I call it “Sick and Tired and Needing a Doctor” …

This is like the third or fourth production I’ve done lately that involves me being shown with a toilet: parse that as you will. But all the same, I think this turned out rather nice. What do you think? šŸ™‚

Okay, this is a good enough post to close out the week with. I’m going to take a break from blogging for the next few days. Have a great weekend y’all!

EDIT 11:47 a.m. EST: The video has been posted on Daily Paul! After this update I really am stepping away from the ‘puter for a ...

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Next weekend, on June 9th and 10th, the American Film Institute in Los Angeles will be hosting the Pixelodeon 2007 Annual Independent Video Festival. Over 300 independently-produced videos and short films will be shown. Well, guess what: the “Star Wars”-themed first commercial from my school board campaign has been given the honor of being one of them! It really amazes me that all these months later, it’s still seems to be rather popular. I just made it because (a) the idea was too good not to do and (b) with 16 candidates running, I really did have to try to stand out a little. But lo and behold, it’s something that became bona-fide viral… which I never expected to happen. And now it’s being shown at the AFI!

Pixelodeon 2007 sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun! I won’t be there unfortunately (there’s a teaching exam that ...

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Y’know, the school board election was in November and it’s now been more than 7 months since my first campaign commercial – the “lightsaber” one – first aired. And I only ran that one for about a week and a half before replacing it with the next in the series. But months later, and I’m still getting e-mails and phone calls out the wazoo about it.

I totally missed the opportunity to talk with them on the air about it, but it looks like National Public Radio did a segment about funny political ads and mine was discussed.

So let’s see, the current tally is that my commercial has been reported on by: The New York Times, the News & Record in Greensboro, the News and Observer in Raleigh, The Charlotte Observer, quite a few television stations including some on cable, and now National Public Radio.

Not too ...

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